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WESLEYAN 

UNIVERSITY 

BULLETIN 


Past,  Present  and  Future 


of  Ohio  Wesleyan 
University 


1905 


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O H I O 

WESLEYAN 

UNIVERSITY 

BULLETIN 


Past,  Present  and  Future 
of  Ohio  Wesleyan 

University 

1905 

ISSUED  BI-MONTHLY 


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as  Second-class  matter,  under  Act  of 
Congress,  July  16. 1894 


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Facts  Concerning  the  Ohio 
Wesleyan  University. 

Located  at  Delaware,  Ohio  — almost  in 
the  very  geographical  center  of  the 
state. 

Easy  of  access  — Delaware  has  three 
railroads,  one  interurban  line. 

Delaware  a very  healthful  place  — noted 
for  mineral  springs. 

University  a Methodist  Institution, 
though  not  sectarian,  located  in  the 
center  of  the  largest  Methodist  popu- 


lation in  the  United  States. 

Number  of  Methodists  in  Ohio, 

approximately 325,000 

Methodists  in  surrounding 
states : 

New  York,  approximately. . . 300,000 
Pennsylvania  “ ...  285,000 

West  Virginia  “ ...  50,000 

Kentucky  “ ...  25,000 

Indiana  “ ...  188,000 

Michigan  “ ...  105,000 


Total  for  Ohio  and  adjoin- 
ing states 1 ,278,000 

Number  of  Methodists  within  a 
radius  of  two  hundred  miles 
of  the  University,  approxi- 
mately   650,000 


The  above  figures  refer  to  actual  mem- 
bers and  do  not  include  adherents. 

In  1844  the  Ohio  Wesleyan  University 
was  formally  opened  as  a College,  with 
twenty-nine  students  in  attendance. 

In  1876  the  Ohio  Wesleyan  Female  Col- 
lege of  Delaware  was  united  to  the 
University,  since  which  time  the  Col- 
lege has  been  co-educational. 

In  1896  the  Cleveland  College  of  Phy- 
sicians and  Surgeons  was  adopted  by 
the  University  as  its  Medical  Depart- 
ment. 

During  sixty  years  of  history  nearly 
thirty  thousand  students  have  attended. 


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The  College  has  turned  out  over  five 
thousand  graduates. 

Enrollment  of  Past  Year,  1904-05 

For  College  year  — Academic..  175 

Collegiate  636 

Music,  Art  and  Commercial . . 301 

Medical 82 

Graduate  students 39 

Total  1,23  3 

For  Calendar  year  1,472 

Number  of  Graduates,  1905 


Colleges  of  Liberay  Arts  118 

M.  A 17 

M.  D 16 


I5i 

Diplomas  in  Music 

6 

Diplomas  in  Oratory 

2 

8 

Total  graduates 

Teaching  Staff  of  College 

159 

Professors  in  College  of 

Liberal  Arts 

22 

Instructors  and  Assistants 

Professors  in  Medical 

0 

00  1 

Tt- 

School  

Associate  Professors  and 

26 

Lecturers  

34 

60 

Total  

Material  Equipment  of  College 

130 

Grounds  and  thirteen  build- 

ings  

New  Gymnasium  being 

$750,000 

built  . 

75,000 

Endowment,  approximately. 

975,000 

Total  

$1,800,000 

Departments  of  the  University 

College  of  Liberal  Arts. 

Academic  Department. 

School  of  Oratory. 

School  of  Music. 

School  of  Art. 

School  of  Business. 

School  of  Medicine  in  Cleveland. 


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HERBERT  WELCH,  D.  D. 
President 


THE  GYMNASIUM 


Scholastic  Standing  of  College 


t it  \ HE  Ohio  Wesleyan  University 
■ does  not  claim  to  be  doing  bet- 
ter  scholastic  work  than  other 
high  grade  colleges  and  univer- 
sities of  the  country,  but  she  does  claim 
that,  so  far  as  she  has  facilities,  few  if 
any  colleges  are  doing  better  work.  Our 
professors  are  thorough,  scholarly  men 
with  excellent  training  for  their  work. 
Some  of  our  great  universities  like  Har- 
vard, Yale,  and  Chicago  University, 
throw  their  emphasis  on  post-graduate 
and  professional  work,  and  much  of  the 
regular  college  work  is  done  by  assistant 
professors  and  instructors.  The  fact  that 
all  of  our  professors  do  their  work  in  the 
regular  college,  and  that  all  of  our  stu- 
dents get  the  benefit  of  their  teaching 
and  of  personal  contact  with  them  gives 
us  in  some  respects  advantages  over  these 
great  universities  with  regard  to  college 
work. 

Our  graduates  who  have  gone  into  the 
great  universities  of  the  East  for  post- 
graduate work  have  ranked  very  high  in 
their  scholarship.  In  fact,  a comparison 
of  statistics  in  recent  years  shows  that  our 
graduates  in  Harvard,  Yale,  Columbia, 
Johns  Hopkins  and  Chicago  University 
have  taken  about  four  times  the  number 
of  honors  to  which  they  were  numerically 
entitled.  In  1903-04  one  of  our  seniors, 
Mr.  C.  H.  May,  made  the  highest  grade 
in  the  Cecil  Rhodes  scholarship  contest  in 
Ohio,  but  failed  to  receive  the  scholarship 
on  account  of  poor  health.  Last  spring, 
one  of  this  last  year’s  seniors,  Mr.  E.  R. 
Lloyd,  made  the  highest  grade  in  a like 
contest  in  West  Virginia  and  received 
the  scholarship  from  that  state. 

For  eight  years  we  have  been  in  an 
Oratorical  League  with  the  State  Uni- 
versities of  Illinois,  Indiana,  Ohio,  West 


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Virginia,  together  with  Cornell  Univer- 
sity of  New  York.  We  have  won  five 
first  and  two  second  places  in  the  eight 
contests.  Some  of  the  State  Universities 
became  discouraged  and  wished  to  with- 
draw, so  a new  League  has  been  formed 
with  Chicago  University,  Cornell  Univer- 
sity, Columbia  University,  and  the  Uni- 
versity of  Pennsylvania. 

For  nine  years  we  have  been  a member 
of  the  Big  Four  Debating  League  of 
Ohio.  We  have  won  six  out  of  the  nine 
contests  in  which  we  have  been  engaged, 
making  us  champions  of  the  State.  In 

1902- 3  while  our  first  team,  taking  the 
affirmative  side  of  a question,  defeated 
the  Ohio  State  University;  our  second 
team,  taking  the  negative  side  of  the 
same  question,  the  same  night  defeated 
the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University.  We 
did  the  same  thing  again  the  next  year, 

1903- 4,  with  Western  Reserve  University 
and  Wooster  University,  winning  both 
sides  of  a question  the  same  night. 


Religious  Character  of  College 

THE  Ohio  Wesleyan  University 
is,  and  has  been  in  all  of  its  six- 
ty years  of  history,  pre-emi- 
nently Christian.  It  is  a Meth- 
odist institution  in  that  a majority  of  its 
trustees  are  elected  by  Annual  Confer- 
ences of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
its  faculty  and  students  are  mostly  Meth- 
odists, and  the  Annual  Conferences  of 
Ohio  contribute  somewhat  toward  its 
support;  but  the  School  is  in  no  sense 
narrowly  sectarian.  No  denominational 
requirement  is  made  for  either  students, 
faculty,  or  trustees.  Our  professors  and 
instructors,  without  exception,  are  pro- 
fessing Christians,  and  most  of  them  are 


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very  earnest  and  active.  The  moral  life 
of  the  students  is  very  carefully  guarded. 
No  gambling  or  drinking  or  anything  of 
the  kind  is  permitted.  On  the  other  hand 
every  influence  possible  is  exerted  to  lead 
the  students  to  high,  noble,  Christian 
character. 

Work  of  Christian  Associations 

THE  Young  Men’s  Christian 
Association  and  the  Young 
Women’s  Christian  Association 
are  the  centers  of  the  religious 
life  of  the  College.  Their  work  begins  a 
week  or  more  before  the  opening  of  the 
college  year.  Committees  are  on  hand, 
at  the  opening  of  the  year,  to  meet  all 
trains,  greet  the  new  students,  and  wel- 
come back  the  old  ones.  They  help  the 
newcomers  to  find  places  to  room  and 
board,  and  each  year  aid  from  fifty  to 
one  hundred  fifty  young  men  to  find 
places  where  they  can  at  least  help  to  pay 
their  expenses  in  College.  The  old  and 
new  students  alike  are  invited  to  the  spe- 
cial meetings  that  are  held  each  evening 
of  the  opening  week.  Every  young  man 
or  young  women  who  is  not  a Christian 
is  soon  found  out  and  active,  prayerful 
effort  is  commenced  to  lead  such  into  the 
Christian  life.  A young  man,  the  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  secretary,  is  employed  as  a kind 
of  college  pastor,  and  devotes  all  of  his 
time  to  the  religious  interests  of  the 
young  men.  He  is  aided  by  the  officers 
and  committees  of  the  Association  and 
by  members  of  the  Faculty. 

Results  of  This  Active  Christian  Work 

BY  means  of  this  earnest  work 
during  the  whole  of  the  College 
year,  aided  by  the  special  ser- 
vices that  are  held  during  the 
winter  term,  a large  number  of  students 


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are  brought  into  the  Christian  life,  and 
those  already  Christian  are  kept  true  to 
their  profession  and  helped  toward  a bet- 
ter life.  Last  year  three  hundred  fifteen 
of  the  young  men  and  seventy-six  of 
the  young  women  were  enrolled  in  Bible 
Study  classes,  which  classes  met  each 
week,  and  for  which  study  the  students 
received  no  credit  whatever  in  the  Col- 
lege. One  hundred  sixty-five  of  the 
young  men  and  one  hundred  forty  of  the 
young  women  were  also  enrolled  in  Mis- 
sion Study  classes  last  year.  This  year 
the  number  both  in  Bible  Study  and  in 
Mission  Study  will  be  increased.  Two 
years  ago  we  closed  the  year  with  ninety- 
five  percent  of  our  whole  student  body 
professing  Christians.  One  year  ago  we 
closed  with  ninety-seven  percent  Chris- 
tian. This  last  year  we  closed  with  only 
twelve  young  men  and  three  young 
women  in  our  whole  student  body  at  that 
time  who  were  not  members  of  the  Chris- 
tian Associations. 

Undoubtedly  it  would  not  be  true  to 
say  that  each  one  of  these  professing 
Christians  was  all  that  he  professed  to 
be.  We  have  had  young  men  and  young 
women  here  whose  conduct  was  far  from 
that  of  earnest  Christians,  and  no  doubt 
many  of  our  students  are  more  or  less 
negligent  in  their  Christian  duties.  Yet 
the  proportion  of  genuine  Christian 
young  people  in  the  number  of  those  pro- 
fessing is  exceedingly  high,  far  above 
that  of  the  ordinary  church. 

Statement  of  John  R.  Mott 

IN  the  past  history  of  the  Uni- 
versity about  one  in  every  four 
of  our  young  men  has  gone 
either  into  the  ministry  or  into 
the  mission  field.  Mr.  John  R.  Mott,  the 
man  who  originated  the  Student  Volun- 
teer Movement  in  colleges  and  who  has 


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undoubtedly  visited  more  colleges  and 
universities  in  this  country  and  in  the 
world  than  any  other  living  man,  stated 
a year  ago  last  winter,  that  “Cambridge 
University  in  England  has  yielded  the 
largest  missionary  results  of  any  univer- 
sity in  the  British  Isles,  and  that  so  far 
as  I have  been  able  to  ascertain,  the  Ohio 
Wesleyan  University  and  Mt.  Holyoke 
College  occup)^  a similar  position  in  this 
country.”  That  is  surely  a most  remark- 
able statement  coming  from  such  a man, 
and  shows  the  mightiness  of  the  mission- 
ary influence  of  the  College. 

Approbation  of  The  Last  General  Conference 

THE  last  General  Conference  in 
Los  Angeles  showed  its  appro- 
bation of  the  religious  life  of  the 
Institution  by  calling  its  Presi- 
dent, Dr.  Bashford,  to  become  Bishop; 
one  of  its  graduates,  Dr.  McDowell, 
to  become  another  Bishop ; Dr.  Oldham, 
who  was  for  several  years  professor  in 
the  College,  to  become  Missionary 
Bishop;  Dr.  Whitlock,  a graduate  and 
also  now  a professor,  to  be  a member 
and  chairman  of  the  Book  Committee; 
Dr.  Anderson,  another  graduate,  to  be- 
come Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Educa- 
tion ; and  D.  D.  Thompson,  also  a gradu- 
ate, to  continue  as  Editor  of  the  North- 
western Christian  Advocate. 


Seme  Alumni  and  Former 
Students  of  the  College 

In  Government 

C.  W.  Fairbanks,  Vice  President  of 
the  United  States. 

Myron  T.  Herrick,  Governor  of  Ohio. 
John  M.  Pattison,  Congressman  and 
Governor  elect  of  Ohio. 


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Ex-Governors : — John  M.  Hamilton 
of  Illinois. 

J.  B.  Foraker  of  Ohio. 

S.  M.  Elbert  of  Colorado. 

G.  W.  Atkinson  of  West  Virginia. 
John  Hoyt  of  Wyoming. 

Congressmen:  — Jones  of  Delaware, 
Republican  Chairman  of  State. 

W.  R.  Warnock  of  Urbana,  O. 
Washington  Gardner  of  Michigan. 
Judges  of  the  Supreme  Court : 

John  H.  Baker  of  Indiana. 

S.  M.  Elbert  of  Colorado. 
Ambassadors : 

H.  N.  Allen  to  Korea. 

Dr.  M.  W.  Cramer  to  Copenhagen. 

In  the  Church 

Frank  W.  Gunsaulus,  Central  Church, 
Chicago. 

Charles  E.  Jefferson,  Broadway  Taber- 
nacle, New  York  City. 

Francis  J.  McConnell,  New  York  Ave., 
Brooklyn. 

Naphtali  Luccock,  Union  Church,  St. 
Louis. 

F.  P.  Parkin  of  Philadelphia. 

Bishops  C.  C.  McCabe,  W.  F.  McDow- 
ell and  E.  E.  Hoss. 

W.  F.  Anderson,  Secretary  of  Board 
of  Education. 

W.  F.  Whitlock,  Chairman  of  Book 
Committee. 

Missionaries  — Thompson,  Drees  and 
LaFetra  of  So.  America. 

T.  J.  Scott  and  Wm.  Mansell  of  In- 
dia. 

Lowry,  Nathan  Sites  and  L.  F.  Pil- 
cher of  China. 

In  the  Educational  World 

College  Presidents : — F.  W.  Gunsau- 
lus, Armour  Institute,  Chicago. 

W.  F.  King,  Cornell,  la. 

E.  H.  Hughes,  DePauw  University, 
Ind. 


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W.  F.  McDowell,  former  Chancellor 
Denver  University. 

Isaac  Crook,  Athens  University. 

Guy  Potter  Benton,  Miami  Univer- 
sity. 

J.  E.  Stubbs,  Nevada  State  Univer- 
sity. 

A.  E.  Smith,  Ohio  Northern  Univer- 
sity. 

A.  B.  Riker,  Mt.  Union  College. 

College  Professors  and  Public  School 
men : 

John  Williams  White,  Harvard  Uni- 
versity. 

A.  E.  Dolbear,  Tufts  College,  co-in- 
ventor of  the  telephone  with  Bell. 

W.  M.  Bryant,  St.  Louis,  professor 
and  author. 

S.  L.  Beiler,  former  Chancellor  of 
American  University,  now  Profes- 
sor Boston  University. 

E.  G.  Conklin,  Pennsylvania  Univer- 
sity, wrote  article  on  Anatomy  in 

Encyclopedia  Americana. 

E.  E.  Sparks,  State  University,  Ohio. 

B.  F.  Dyer,  Supt.  of  Schools,  Cin- 
cinnati. 

Wm.  H.  Maltbie,  Baltimore  Wo- 
man’s College. 

D.  A.  Hayes,  Garrett  Biblical  In- 
stitute. 

Journalists:  — Arthur  Edwards  and 
D.  D.  Thompson,  editors  of  the 
North  Western  Christian  Advo- 
cate. 

E.  J.  Wheeler,  former  editor  of  Lit- 
erary Digest , now  editor  of  Cur- 
rent Literature. 

Dr.  Geo.  Gould,  editor  Medical  Jour- 
nal, Philadelphia. 

Geo.  W.  Hitt,  manager  of  Indianap- 
olis Journal. 

I.  W.  Dumm,  editor  Kansas  City 
Journal. 

Professor  John  Williams  White  of 


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Harvard  University  said  this  last  spring 
that  he  and  Mr.  John  Henry  of  Chicago 
had  been  thinking  and  talking  about  the 
Ohio  Wesleyan  University  and  that  they 
did  not  believe  there  was  another  College 
in  the  United  States  with  so  short  a his- 
tory which  had  turned  out  as  many  men 
and  women  who  had  risen  to  distinction 
in  their  country’s  history  as  had  the  Ohio 
Wesleyan  University.  When  asked  if  he 
thought  that  was  due  to  the  superior 
scholastic  work  that  was  being  done  there, 
he  said,  “No,  not  in  the  main.  I attribute 
it  more  to  the  high  character  and  the  in- 
tense moral  earnestness  of  the  young  peo- 
ple of  the  Ohio  Wesleyan  University.” 


Ohio  Wesleyan’s  Ideal 

FROM  the  above  facts  it  will  be 
seen  that  the  Ohio  Wesleyan 
University  is  not  trying  simply 
to  give  the  best  possible  intel- 
lectual training  to  its  students,  nor  is  it 
trying  simply  to  give  the  best  possible 
moral  and  spiritual  training.  It  realizes 
the  importance  of  both. 

VaJue  of  Intellectual  Training 

IT  pays  to  get  a thorough  intel- 
lectual education.  A study  of 
the  lives  of  our  public  men  shows 
that  thirty-two  percent  of  our 
Congressmen,  forty-six  percent  of  our 
Senators,  sixty-five  percent  of  our  Presi- 
dents and  seventy-three  percent  of  our 
Chief  Justices  have  been  college  gradu- 
ates. An  examination  of  the  record  of 
the  15,142  Americans  who,  during  all  our 
history,  have  risen  to  such  prominence  in 
all  walks  of  life  as  to  have  their  names 
recorded  in  the  Cyclopedia  of  American 
Biography , shows  that  thirty-five  percent 
of  these  have  been  college  graduates.  A 


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like  examination  of  the  record  of  the 
6,029  persons  whose  names  appear  in 
Who's  Who  in  America  as  leaders  in  our 
nation  in  1899  shows  that  seventy  percent 
of  these  have  been  college  graduates. 

William  T.  Harris,  the  United  States 
Commissioner  of  Education,  says  that  the 
number  of  college  graduates  to-day  is  to 
the  men  twenty-one  years  of  age  and  over 
as  one  to  ninety-one.  He  adds  that  twen- 
ty-five years  ago  the  number  of  graduates 
and  non-graduates  was  as  one  to  two 
hundred  seventy-three.  And  the  ratio 
of  male  college  graduates  to  our  male 
adult  population  throughout  our  entire 
history  has  not  exceeded  one  to  seven 
hundred  fifty.  So  that  while  in  all  our 
past  history  the  non-college  men  ought  to 
have  furnished  seven  hundred  fifty  times 
as  many  men  who  have  risen  to  distinc- 
tion as  the  college  men,  they  have  in  real- 
ity furnished  only  two  and  six-sevenths 
times  as  many,  so  that  the  chances  of  suc- 
cess of  a college  man,  taking  all  our  past 
history  together,  have  been  262  times  as 
many  as  have  those  of  a non-college  man. 

If  the  men  of  distinction  to-day  were 
the  young  men  of  the  country  twenty- 
five  years  ago  when  the  ratio  of  non-col 
lege  men  to  college  men  was  273  to  1, 
then  the  non-college  men  ought  to  have 
produced  273  times  as  many  of  the  great 
men  of  the  country  to-day  as  the  college 
men.  But  in  reality  they  have  produced 
only  three-sevenths  times  as  many ; or  in 
other  words,  twenty-five  years  ago  a col- 
lege young  man’s  chances  of  making  a 
success  and  reaching  eminence  in  life 
were  637  times  as  many  as  were  those  of 
a young  man  without  a college  education. 
Another  significant  fact  is  that  an  exam- 
ination of  the  college  record  of  the  known 
millionaires  in  the  United  States  shows 
that  twenty-five  years  ago  a college  edu- 
cation increased  a young  man’s  chances 

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of  becoming  immensely  wealthy  about 
440  times. 

The  most  significant  fact  drawn  from 
the  above  figures  is,  that  while  the  num- 
ber of  college  men  in  proportion  to  the 
number  of  non-college  men  has  been  rap- 
idly increasing  in  our  country,  yet  the 
number  of  college  men  who  have  been 
successful  and  have  reached  eminence  in 
life  in  proportion  to  the  number  of  non- 
college men  who  have  been  successful 
has  been  increasing  much  more  rapidly. 
This  shows  that  a college  education  is 
becoming  more  and  more  imperative  to 
the  young  man  who  expects  to  make  a 
success  in  this  life. 

Mere  Intellectual  Training  Not  Enough 

BUT  mere  intellectual  training 
does  not  necessarily  fit  a man  for 
success  in  life.  The  Cincinnati 
Enquirer  made  the  statement 
this  spring  that  there  were  at  that  time 
eleven  bankers  of  Ohio  behind  prison 
bars  and  seventeen  more  were  before  the 
courts  for  trial.  Several  of  these  have 
since  been  sent  to  prison.  Some  of  our 
brightest  lawyers  and  most  eminent  phy- 
sicians have  died  drunkards.  Aaron  Burr 
had  a mind,  keen  as  the  mind  of  a Ham- 
ilton, but  Burr  died  in  disgrace  a traitor. 

World  Demanding'  Men  of  Character 

THE  business  world  to-day  is  de- 
manding men  of  character.  Mr. 
N.  W.  Harris,  the  Chicago 
Banker,  some  two  years  ago 
asked  Dr.  Bashford,  then  our  president, 
to  send  him  each  year  two  or  three  of  our 
young  men  that  wanted  to  go  into  bank- 
ing, for  he  wanted  Christian  young  men 
that  he  could  trust.  A business  man  of 
Wooster,  Mass.,  said  to  an  audience  of 
young  men  that  he  knew  of  at  least  a 
dozen  splendid  business  openings  that  he 
could  fill  inside  of  a week  if  he  only  had 


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young  men  of  character  that  could  be 
trusted.  The  country  is  placing  its  stamp 
of  worth  upon  character  to-day.  Presi- 
dent Roosevelt  would  never  have  re- 
ceived his  enormous  maj  ority  had  not  the 
people  been  won  to  him  on  account  of  his 
integrity,  uprightness  and  square  dealing. 
Folk  of  Missouri,  Deneen  of  Illinois,  La 
Follette  of  Wisconsin,  Weaver  of  Phila- 
delphia, Jerome  of  New  York  and  Hanly 
of  Indiana  have  recently  risen  even  to  na- 
tional prominence,  more  because  of  their 
stand  for  righteousness  and  uprightness 
in  government,  than  for  any  other  reason. 

Insurance  companies  are  refusing  to 
insure  men  who  drink.  Railroads  and 
many  leading  factories  are  refusing  to 
employ  men  who  drink.  The  two  leading 
Bond  Security  companies  in  the  United 
States  have,  within  the  last  year,  refused 
to  go  upon  the  bond  of  any  man  who 
gambles.  The  railroads  and  many  fac- 
tories are  building  Y.  M.  C.  A.  and  Y. 
W.  C.  A.  buildings  for  their  employees. 
What  does  it  all  mean  ? It  is  merely  the 
recognition  of  the  value  and  of  the  almost 
absolute  necessity  of  character  as  a qual- 
ification for  success  in  business  or  public 
life. 

Value  of  Colleges  That  Develop  the  Moral  as 
Well  as  the  Intellectual  Life 

HENCE  if  one  were  looking 
merely  at  the  preparation  for 
public  and  business  life,  the  de- 
velopment of  upright  Christian 
character  is  as  much  a part  of  that  prep- 
aration as  is  intellectual  development. 
But  when  one  goes  beyond  this  and  real- 
izes that  a man’s  life  in  its  highest  and 
truest  and  best,  consists  “not  in  the 
abundance  of  the  things  which  he  pos- 
sesses,” nor  even  in  the  greatness  of  the 
things  that  he  achieves,  but  rather  in  the 
true  worth  and  greatness  of  his  own 
highest  self,  in  the  Christlikeness  of  his 


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character,  then  he  will  come  to  appreciate 
something  of  the  meaning  of  a College 
that  is  sending  out  from  ninety  to  ninety- 
seven  percent  of  its  students  Christian. 
For,  if,  as  was  shown  above,  college-bred 
young  people  are  largely  to  be  leaders 
in  the  world’s  work,  how  important  then 
to  have  these  leaders  of  thought,  of  gov- 
ernment, of  business  on  the  side  of 
Christ  and  righteousness ! 

Emphasis  of  Wesley  and  Early  Methodism  ok 
Christian  Education 

WESLEY  founded  schools  almost 
as  soon  as  he  founded  churches, 
because  he  believed  in  the  power 
of  educated  Christians.  Method- 
ism would  never  have  been  the  civiliz- 
ing, uplifting  force  that  it  has  been,  had 
not  the  church  laid  such  stress  upon  ed- 
ucation along  with  Christianization.  Of 
late  years  the  world  has  been  placing  the 
stress  upon  the  education  and  too  often 
has  left  out  the  Christianization.  The 
Bible  has  been  left  out  of  the  public 
schools.  Some  of  the  State  Universities 
and  Technical  Schools,  it  is  to  be  feared, 
have  been  sending  out  many  of  their 
young  people  more  debauched  and  skep- 
tical than  when  they  came.  Thousands 
of  fathers  and  mothers  wait  at  home  in 
fear  and  trembling  lest  their  boys  come 
out  of  college  moral  wrecks  or  else  in- 
tellectual skeptics  or  agnostics.  How 
important  then,  in  the  life  of  the  church 
and  in  the  life  of  the  nation,  are  the 
schools  that  are  truly  Christian  in  char- 
acter, that  are  sending  out  their  young 
people  not  only  educated  in  mind,  but 
true  and  earnest  and  Christlike  in  char- 
acter ; that  are  the  means  of  leading  from 
fifty  to  one  hundred  fifty  young  people 
into  the  Christian  life  every  year! 


Why  Christian  Men  and  Wo- 
men Should  Give  Largely  to 
Such  an  Institution 

I Because  Such  Giving  Will  Yield  the  Largest 
Returns 

MEN  and  women  are  more  and 
more  using  good  business  judg- 
ment in  the  distribution  of  their 
property  for  Christian  and  char- 
itable purposes.  They  want  to  invest 
here,  as  well  as  in  all  business  invest- 
ments, where  the  surest  and  largest  re- 
turns may  be  expected.  Jesus  Christ 
commended  all  giving  that  had  for  its 
object  the  helping  of  humanity,  and  said 
that  visiting  the  sick,  feeding  the  hungry, 
clothing  the  naked,  was  visiting,  feeding 
and  clothing  himself,  and  further  said 
that  one  could  not  even  give  a cup  of  cold 
water  in  the  name  of  a disciple  without 
receiving  a reward  for  it  from  his  Father. 
And  yet  at  the  same  time  Jesus  Christ 
taught  plainly  that  life  meant  more  than 
the  supplying  of  these  things.  He  said, 
“The  life  is  more  than  meat  and  the 
body  than  raiment”,  “Take  no  anxious 
thought  what  ye  shall  eat,  or  what  ye 
shall  drink,  or  wherewithal  ye  shall  be 
clothed”,  “A  man’s  life  consists  not  in 
the  abundance  of  the  things  that  he  pos- 
sesses”. He  often  withdrew  himself 
from  the  crowds  of  lame  and  halt  and 
blind  and  lepers  and  went  aside  to  teach 
the  minds  and  souls  of  his  followers. 
Christ  came  primarily  to  reach  the  mind, 
the  heart,  the  soul  of  man.  That  which 
elevates  the  mind  of  man,  that  which 
makes  him  more  Christlike  in  character, 
is  doing  a far  grander  and  more  telling 
work  than  that  which  merely  or  mainly 
administers  to  his  physical  wants. 
Money,  property,  home,  friends,  health 
may  all  be  swept  away  from  one  here  in 


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this  world,  but  an  educated  mind  and  a 
Christlike  heart  are  gifts  enduring  as 
eternity.  Nothing  makes  a man  so  nearly 
like  his  God  as  a great  mind,  ruled  and 
controlled  by  a great  heart. 

Where,  then,  can  greater  returns  be 
received  than  in  giving  to  an  educational 
institution  that  is  sending  out  from 
ninety  to  ninety-seven  percent  of  its 
graduates,  not  only  educated  in  mind, 
but  Christlike  in  heart!  If  college  men 
and  women  are  to  be  leaders  in  society, 
in  business,  in  government,  in  education 
— what  an  influence  for  good  the  one 
hundred  twenty  or  more  graduates 
from  this  Christian  College  each  year  will 
have  upon  the  people  of  America  and  of 
the  world ! Larger  gifts  to  the  Univer- 
sity will  mean  larger  facilities  for  intel- 
lectual work  and  consequently  larger 
numbers  of  young  men  and  young  wo- 
men coming  to  the  University  and  re- 
ceiving the  benefit  of  the  Christian  as 
well  as  the  intellectual  influence  of  the 
College. 

2 Because  Ultimately  it  Would  Mean  Larger 
Gifts  to  Other  Benevolences 

ORPHANAGES,  asylums,  hos- 
pitals and  homes  for  the  aged 
are  doing  noble  service  for  man- 
kind, and  giving  to  the  support 
of  such  institutions  is  one  of  the  noblest 
and  most  Christlike  things  that  a man  or 
woman  can  do.  Yet  if  one  looks  with 
statesmanlike  foresight  out  into  the  great 
future  he  will  see  that  in  giving  to  a 
Christian  college  like  this,  he  may  be 
doing  more  for  the  sick  and  the  blind  and 
the  aged  and  the  distressed,  than  he  could 
possibly  do  by  giving  directly  to  these 
benevolent  institutions.  For,  if  what  was 
said  above  be  true,  that  a college  educa- 
tion greatly  increases  a young  man’s 
probabilities  of  becoming  wealthy,  then 


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in  the  years  to  come  many  more  of  our 
students  will  become  possessors  of  great 
wealth  than  would  these  same  young 
people  without  this  college  education. 
Thus  a gift  to  the  College  now  will,  all 
along  down  the  centuries  to  come,  be 
helping  to  increase  the  wealth-producing 
ability  of  those  who  attend  the  College, 
and  if  these  young  people,  under  the  in- 
fluence of  the  Christian  College,  go  out 
permeated  with  a Christlike  spirit,  when 
they  amass  wealth  they  will  give  to  all 
these  Christian  benevolence.  Thus  a 
few  thousands  now,  given  back  at  the 
source,  may  in  the  centuries  to  come 
mean  millions  poured  into  these  charities. 

Of  course  if  all  generous-hearted 
Christians  to-day  should  give  all  their 
gifts  to  Christian  colleges,  then  the  char- 
ities of  the  present  would  have  to  suffer. 
But  there  is  no  danger  here,  for  Chris- 
tian hearts  will  always  be  touched  with 
pity  for  the  distressed  and  the  homeless 
and  the  poor,  and  they  will  give  for  their 
relief.  Many  more  people  will  give  for 
the  immediate  relief  of  suffering  than 
will,  with  the  eye  of  faith,  give  for  the 
greater  future. 

3 Because  Such  Giving  is  the  Best,  Most  Tell- 
ing and  Most  Lasting  Memorial  of  One's 
Life  Work 

F I y HE  endowment  of  a professor- 
ship in  a Christian  college  like 
this  is  a far  more  fitting  and 
lasting  memorial  than  any  gran- 
ite shaft  or  costly  mausoleum,  for  it  not 
only  perpetuates  the  name,  but  it  also 
multiplies  and  perpetuates  the  influence 
of  one’s  life.  A man  who  has  labored 
and  toiled  and  sacrificed,  who  has,  with 
God’s  help,  been  successful  and  has  ac- 
cumulated something  of  a fortune,  does 
not  desire  to  see  that  fortune  scattered 
and  in  a few  years  after  he  is  gone  have 
the  efforts  of  his  lifetime  dissipated  and 


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lost  forever.  And  yet  this  is  too  often 
true.  A man  dies  without  a will,  his 
property  is  scattered  among  a score  or 
more  of  distant  relatives,  and  in  a very 
few  years  all  trace  of  that  which  repre- 
sents the  efforts  and  savings  and  success 
of  his  lifetime  has  disappeared. 

Money  given  to  the  University  as  en- 
dowment is  not  itself  used  for  the  sup- 
port of  the  University,  but  is  placed  out 
in  safe  investments  and  the  income  each 
year  goes  toward  the  support  of  the  In- 
stitution, so  that  the  amount  given  for 
endowment  is  kept  as  a permanent  and 
perpetual  fund.  The  Ohio  Wesleyan 
University  has  not  met  a loss  on  its  loans 
for  many  years,  because  these  loans  are 
secured  by  first  mortgages  on  real  estate, 
and  the  amount  loaned  is  only  about  one- 
half  the  value  of  the  property  mortgaged. 
Further,  in  case  any  loss  should  occur, 
the  loss  would  fall  upon  the  general  un- 
designated funds  of  the  University,  and 
thus  would  preserve  intact  every  endow- 
ment granted  for  a specific  purpose  and 
commemorating  the  name  of  the  donor. 

No  gifts,  therefore,  are  more  perma- 
nent than  gifts  to  educational  institu- 
tions. In  fact,  such  endowments  are 
more  permanent  than  governments  or  na- 
tions. “The  Universities  of  Oxford  and 
Cambridge  in  England ; Montpelier,  Tou- 
louse and  Orleans  in  France;  Cologne, 
Heidelberg,  Erfurt  and  Leipsic  in  Ger- 
many; and  Pisa  and  Bologna  in  Italy, 
are  all  older  than  the  existing  govern- 
ments of  those  countries.  Indeed,  each  of 
them  has  outlived  several  revolutions  and 
varying  dynasties !”  Let  a man  endow 
a professorship  in  this  University  and  a 
thousand  years  hence,  if  the  world  lasts 
that  long,  his  gift  will  still  remain  intact, 
a monument  to  his  name  and  life's  work, 
and  its  income  will  still  be  aiding  young 
men  and  young  women  to  secure  a Chris- 


tian  education.  A man  is  remembered 
not  so  much  by  what  he  has  accumulated, 
but  rather  by  the  good  he  has  accom- 
plished. By  giving  to  such  an  institution 
as  this,  a man  may  be  able  to  accomplish 
more  for  humanity  and  for  Christ’s  king- 
dom in  the  centuries  after  his  death  than 
he  was  able  to  accomplish  during  his  life- 
time. 

4 Because  The  University  Must  Depend  Large- 
ly Upon  The  Income  From  Such  Gifts  For 
Its  Support 

IN  almost  every  state  in  the 
union  there  is  at  least  one  state 
university  that  receives  its  sup- 
port from  the  state.  Ohio  has 
two  colleges  beside  her  State  University 
that  are  supported  by  direct  taxation  of 
the  people.  Hundreds  of  thousands  of 
dollars  thus  pour  into  these  institutions 
almost  every  year.  The  Ohio  Wesleyan 
University,  in  common  with  other  Chris- 
tian schools,  receives  no  aid  whatever 
from  the  State.  Its  receipts  last  year 
from  educational  collections  taken  in  the 
few  patronizing  Conferences  was  only 
$422.50.  Our  main  source  of  income, 
therefore,  aside  from  tuition  paid  by  the 
students  themselves,  is  the  income  from 
the  gifts  of  noble,  unselfish,  far-seeing 
Christian  men  and  women.  The  entire 
income  from  such  gifts  last  year,  that 
went  toward  the  running  expenses  of  the 
College,  was  less  than  fifteen  thousand 
dollars,  an  amount  entirely  inadequate  to 
the  demands  of  a great  University. 


Christian  Men  and  Women  Do 
Not  Realize  Our  Need 

SOMETIMES  men  and  women 
who  are  earnestly  interested  in 
Christian  education  feel  im- 
pressed that  our  colleges  have 
already  sufficient  endowment.  This  is 


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surely  not  true  of  the  Ohio  Wesleyan 
University,  as  will  be  seen  from  the  above 
statement.  The  salary  of  our  regular 
professors  is  only  about  seventeen  hun- 
dred dollars  a year.  This  is  a very  small 
salary  for  men  who  have  spent  from  five 
to  eight  or  ten  years  in  preparation  for 
their  work,  many  of  them  having  had  to 
go  into  debt  to  complete  that  preparation. 
Several  of  our  professors  have  been 
offered  from  five  hundred  to  two  thou- 
sand dollars  a year  more  salary  in  other 
colleges  or  in  other  lines  of  work.  They 
have  declined,  however,  and  have  re- 
mained here.  Our  professors  are  also 
teaching  more  hours  per  day  than  are 
professors  in  any  of  the  eastern  colleges 
or  in  any  of  the  state  universities.  We 
cannot  charge  our  students  much  more 
tuition  without  making  it  impossible  for 
a great  many  to  attend  the  University. 
More  than  half  of  our  young  men  and 
some  of  our  young  women  are  compelled 
to  earn  something  each  year  towTard  their 
college  expenses.  Many  of  our  young 
men  are  paying  all  of  their  expenses  as 
they  go.  These  young  people  are  full  of 
life  and  energy  and  they  will  make  the 
best  citizens.  But  every  added  dollar  of 
expense  shuts  some  of  these  young  peo- 
ple out  of  the  College.  Last  year  the  stu- 
dents paid  into  the  University  $39,385. 
The  treasurer  paid  out  for  the  running 
expenses  of  the  College  $65,434.  Thus 
the  students  were  compelled  to  pay  con- 
siderably more  than  half  of  all  the  ex- 
penses of  the  University.  To  increase 
this  expense  would  be  to  close  the  door 
in  the  face  of  many,  noble,  worthy  young 
men  and  young  women  who  ought  to  be 
under  the  influence  of  this  Christian  Col- 
lege, or  would  drive  them  to  the  state 
institutions  where  the  tuition  is  lower. 


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The  University  Must  Advance 
if  It  Draws  and  Holds  Stu- 
dents 

IN  order  to  draw  and  hold  the 
young  men  and  young  women  of 
to-day  and  of  the  future  our 
Christian  colleges  must  not  be 
inferior  in  their  intellectual  work  to  those 
institutions  which  are  supported  by  the 
state,  or  to  institutions  supported  by  pri- 
vate benefactions  which  are  not  specifi- 
cally Christian  in  character.  Young  peo- 
ple are  not  going  to  a Christian  college 
simply  because  it  is  Christian.  The  par- 
ent, or  the  student  himself,  generally 
selects  the  college  that  he  believes  will 
give  the  best  intellectual  training  for  life’s 
work,  and  the  college  that  draws  the  larg- 
est number  of  students  in  the  future  as 
to-day  will  be  the  college  that  gives  the 
best  intellectual  training.  A well  known 
college  professor  said  recently  in  an  ad- 
dress that  “the  rivalry  among  colleges  for 
patronage  and  recognition  is  as  sharp  as 
it  is  in  the  business  world.  The  states 
are  supplying  state  colleges  with  large 
revenues.  Denominational  relationships 
will  not  be  content  with  unequal  advan- 
tages ; patrons  will  not  be  satisfied  with 
less  than  the  best.”  And  this  is  surely 
true. 

The  professors  of  a college  may  all  be 
earnest  Christian  men,  the  whole  atmos- 
phere of  the  college  may  be  permeated 
with  the  highest  type  of  Christian  spirit, 
but  if  only  a few  students  get  the  benefit 
of  that  atmosphere  and  of  contact  with 
those  professors,  the  influence  of  that  col- 
lege is  necessarily  limited.  Therefore, 
if  our  Christian  colleges  are  going  to 
have  a large  moulding  influence  on  the 
life  of  the  world  in  the  centuries  to  come, 
they  must  first  have  a direct  moulding 
influence  on  the  lives  of  a large  number 


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of  the  young  people  themselves,  and  this 
cannot  be  done  unless  the  young  people 
attend  the  Christian  colleges.  Now  if 
the  rivalry  among  colleges  is  as  great  as 
the  rivalry  in  business,  then  if  we  expect 
the  young  people  to  attend  our  Christian 
colleges  we  must  make  the  Christian  col- 
leges equal,  if  not  superior,  in  all  intel- 
lectual advantages,  to  any  other  colleges 
in  the  land.  The  store  that  offers  the  best 
goods  for  the  money  will  soon  get  the 
most  customers.  The  same  law  holds  in 
regard  to  colleges.  The  college  that  gives 
the  best  intellectual  training,  other  things 
being  equal,  will  draw  the  most  young 
men  and  young  women  to  it. 

The  state  universities  and  colleges  sup- 
ported by  the  state,  and  many  other  in- 
stitutions which  are  not  specifically  Chris- 
tian, are  receiving  large  appropriations 
each  year,  and  are  thus  enabled  to  con- 
stantly increase  the  intellectual  advant- 
ages offered  to  the  young  people  of  the 
country.  In  order  to  keep  abreast  of 
these  other  institutions  in  intellectual  ad- 
vantages offered  and  thus  to  draw  and 
hold  students  of  the  future,  the  Ohio 
Wesleyan  University  must  greatly  in- 
crease its  facilities  for  intellectual  train- 
ing, and  hence  must  have  greatly  in- 
creased endowment.  We  must  pay  our 
professors  more.  We  cannot  hope  to 
hold  our  best  men  when  other  institu- 
tions are  offering  them  so  much  larger 
salaries,  and  hence  so  much  greater  op- 
portunities for  self  development ; nor  can 
we  hope  to  secure  the  best  young  men  to 
fill  the  new  positions  that  must  be  created, 
unless  we  offer  them  some  such  financial 
inducement  as  other  institutions  offer. 
We  must  give  our  men  and  our  students 
better  equipment.  A carpenter  cannot 
work  without  tools.  Neither  can  profess- 
ors or  students  without  books  or  without 
well  equipped  laboratories.  Then  we 


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must  have  several  new  professors  if  we 
are  going  to  give  our  young  people  the 
advantages  that  are  now  being  offered  to 
them  by  other  first-class  colleges  of  the 
country. 

These  needs  are  imperative.  The  fact 
that  the  University  has  turned  out  many 
men  and  women  in  the  past  who  have 
risen  to  distinction  will  not  suffice  to 
draw  and  hold  students  for  the  future  if 
other  institutions  are  offering  them  far 
greater  intellectual  advantages  than  we 
are  able  to  offer  them.  Keep  this  Univer- 
sity equal,  if  not  superior,  to  the  other 
colleges  and  universities  around  us  in  its 
scholastic  work  and  then  large  numbers 
of  young  people  will  be  constantly  com- 
ing here,  they  will  be  brought  under  the 
Christian  influence  of  the  College,  and 
they  will  go  out  from  it  not  only  trained 
in  mind  but  Christian  in  heart.  Ought 
the  young  people  of  Ohio,  ought  the  sons 
and  daughters  from  the  hundreds  and 
thousands  of  Methodist  homes  of  Ohio 
and  surrounding  states  be  compelled  to 
turn  away  from  this  Christian  College 
that  is  sending  out  from  ninety  to  ninety- 
seven  percent  of  its  students  Christian, 
in  order  to  get  the  highest  and  best  schol- 
astic training  for  life? 


Detailed  Statement  of  the 
Needs  of  the  Ohio  Wesleyan 
University 

THE  following  unendowed  pro- 
fessorships, some  of  which  are 
already  occupied,  ought  to  be 
endowed  with  not  less  than 
thirty  or  thirty-five  thousand  dollars 
each.  Forty  thousand  dollars  would  en- 
dow the  professorship  and  also  the  de- 
partmental library  in  connection  with  the 
professorship. 


Latin  Language  and  Literature. 
German  Language  and  Literature. 
French  and  other  Romance  Languages 
and  Literature. 

Physics. 

Chemistry. 

Geology  and  Physical  Geography. 
Botany. 

Zoology. 

Psychology. 

Philosophy. 

Sociology. 

Political  Science. 

European  History. 

Pedagogy. 

Fellowships  or  Departmental  Libraries 

ONE  wishing  to  do  something  for 
the  University  but  not  being 
able  to  endow  a full  professor- 
ship, might  endow  a fellowship 
or  a departmental  library  for  one  of  the 
above  professorships.  Modern  methods 
of  instruction  have  rendered  indispens- 
able a working  library  for  each  depart- 
ment. No  longer  is  a single  text  book  x 
sufficient;  the  student  must  become  ac- 
quainted with  the  collateral  literature  of 
subjects.  Ten  thousand  dollars  would 
endow  the  departmental  library  of  either 
of  the  above  professorships,  and  such  an 
endowment  would  be  a worthy  and  last- 
ing memorial  to  the  donor. 

General  Endowment  for  the  Library 

rjT“l  LIE  General  College  Library  is 
| in  imperative  need  of  at  least  one 
-*■“  hundred  thousand  dollars  en- 
dowment at  once.  Since  the 
completion  of  the  new  Library  Building 
with  its  fireproof  stack  rooms  we  can  pro- 
vide space  for  175,000  volumes.  We 
have  now  less  than  45,000  volumes  in 
the  Library,  and  a number  of  these  are 
duplicates.  Yet  within  the  last  few  years 
the  use  of  the  large  reading  room  has 


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increased  ten  fold.  More  and  more  is 
the  scholastic  life  of  the  College  center- 
ing in  this  building.  Nothing  could  be 
a greater  benefaction  to  the  University 
than  the  immediate  gift  of  one  hundred 
thousand  dollars  for  the  endowment  of 
this  Library. 

Laboratories  to  Be  Endowed 

r"|  ] HE  following  laboratories  ought 
I to  be  endowed.  Modern  meth- 
ods  of  teaching  in  all  sciences 
require  well  equipped  laborato- 
ries and  apparatus  for  in-door  and  out- 
door work.  After  each  name,  first  the 
minimum  amount  that  would  endow  the 
laboratory,  and  then  the  amount  that 
ought  to  be  secured  for  the  proper  en- 
dowment of  it,  is  given. 

Physical  Geography  . . .$5,000 

Geology  5, 000  — 10,000 

Botany  5, 000 — 10,000 

Zoology 5,ooo — 10,000 

Physiology  5, 000  — 10,000 

Physics  10,000  — 20,000 

Psychology  10,000  — 20,000 

Chemistry 10,000  — 20,000 

Schools  of  the  University  to  Be  Endowed 

nn  HE  following  Schools  or  de- 
1 partments  in  the  University 
ought  to  be  endowed  and  the 
minimum  and  desired  amounts 
for  each  are  here  stated. 

School  of  Oratory.  .$100,000 — $200,000 
School  of  Business.  . 100,000 — 200,000 
Political  Science  . . . 100,000 — 200,000 

School  of  Art 100,000 — 250,000 

School  of  Science  . . 100,000 — 500,000 
School  of  Medicine.  100,000 — 500,000 

New  Buildings  Needed 

Young  Men’s  Christian  Associ- 
ation Building $35,000 

Gymnasium  and  Y.  W.  C.  A. 

Building  on  Monnett  Campus  50,000 
Conservatory  of  Music,  $50,000 — 75,000 


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Three  Methods  of  Giving  to 
the  University 


I.  Direct  Gifts 

This,  of  course,  is  what  we  need  most 
of  all  — a large  increase  of  our  present 
productive  endowment.  Those  who  are 
able  and  will  give  outright  for  endow- 
ment can  help  us  more  than  any  others. 

II.  Annuities 

Many  who  cannot  give  outright,  who 
need  the  income  of  their  property  dur- 
ing life,  or  who  desire  the  income  of  all 
or  a part  of  their  property  to  go  to  a 
wife  or  child  or  some  dependent  during 
the  lifetime  of  that  person,  but  who  would 
be  glad  to  have  their  property  ultimately 
go  to  the  University,  may  give  their 
property  to  the  University  now,  and  the 
University' will  pay  an  annuity  on  it  dur- 
ing their  own  lifetime  or  during  that  of 
the  person  it  is  desired  to  aid,  and  the 
property  will  then  fall  to  the  University 
at  the  death  of  the  annuitant.  The  rate 
of  annuity  paid  varies  generally  from 
four  to  five  percent,  according  to  the  age 
of  the  donor.  This  method  of  giving  has 
several  advantages : 

1.  It  often  saves  the  quibbling  and 
] awing  that  comes  over  wills,  and  makes 
more  sure  that  the  property  shall  go 
where  the  donor  wishes. 

2.  It  saves  the  paying  to  the  State 
of  the  inheritance  tax  of  five  percent 
which  is  assessed  against  all  estates  left 
to  charitable  institutions  by  bequest. 

3.  It  enables  the  donor  to  become  the 
executor  of  his  own  estate  during  his 
lifetime.  This  saves  the  executor’s  or 
administrator’s  fees,  which  amount  to 
six  percent  on  the  first  thousand,  four 
percent  on  amounts  between  one  and  five 
thousand,  and  two  percent  on  all  over  five 
thousand  dollars. 


4.  It  exempts  the  donor  from  current 
taxes.  No  tax  whatever  is  assessed  upon 
the  principal,  unless  it  consists  of  real 
estate,  in  which  case  the  University  pays 
the  tax.  All  gifts  of  cash  or  personalty, 
or  real  estate  when  turned  into  cash,  en- 
joy the  exemption  which  is  allowed  edu- 
cational funds.  The  donor  pays  tax  not 
on  the  listed  value  of  the  whole  proper- 
ty, but  on  the  listed  value  of  the  annu- 
ity. This,  of  course,  would  vary  with 
the  age  and  physical  condition  of  the  an- 
nuitant. In  other  words,  the  annuitant 
pays  taxes  on  what  his  claim  for  annu- 
ity would  probably  sell  for  if  placed  on 
the  market.  This  is  always  a small  frac- 
tion of  the  value  of  the  property,  and  thus 
his  taxes  are  reduced  to  a small  percent 
of  what  he  would  otherwise  pay. 

5.  The  Annuity  Plan  relieves  the 
donor  from  all  care  and  anxiety  about 
the  money  or  property,  and  the  income 
is  assured.  The  Trustees  of  the  Univer- 
sity give  to  the  annuitant  a bond  secured 
at  the  present  time  by  property  valued  at 
$1,800,000,  guaranteeing  the  annual  pay- 
ment of  the  percent  agreed  upon. 

6.  A five  percent  annuity  from  the 
University,  when  one  takes  into  consid- 
eration the  reduction  in  taxes,  on  the  one 
side,  and  the  fees,  commissions  and  oc- 
casional losses,  with  temporary  cessation 
of  income  at  the  expiration  of  loans,  or 
the  repairs,  insurance,  etc.  connected 
with  real  estate  investments,  on  the  other 
side,  is  equivalent  to  a gross  income  of 
from  seven  to  ten  percent  on  ordinary 
loans  or  on  investments  in  farms  or 
other  real  estate. 

7.  Those  who  may  benefit  by  this 
method  of  giving  are : 

a.  Those  who  from  age  or  sickness  or 
any  other  cause  have  become  too  feeble 
to  care  properly  for  their  property,  but 
who  need  the  income. 


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b.  Husbands  or  fathers  who  wish  to 
provide  for  wives  or  daughters  and  do 
not  wish  to  impose  upon  them  the  bur- 
den or  uncertainty  of  business. 

c.  Fathers  or  mothers  who  have  af- 
flicted children  that  are  not  capable  of 
caring  for  property.  This  may  also  ap- 
ply to  the  care  of  dissipated  sons.  It  in- 
sures against  poverty  and  want. 

d.  Widows  or  maiden  ladies  who  are 
left  with  property  and  feel  its  care  a 
burden  may  thus  provide  a sure  and  fixed 
income  for  life. 

In  all  the  above  cases  the  donor  is  not 
only  providing  a certain  support  for 
those  he  wishes  to  help  during  their  life- 
time, but  he  is  also  building  a monument 
that  will  last  as  long  as  time,  and  he  will 
be  aiding  and  influencing  hundreds  and 
thousands  of  young  people,  and  through 
them  thousands  of  others,  in  the  cen- 
turies after  he  is  dead  and  gone. 

8.  Another  form  of  giving  somewhat 
analogous  to  the  Annuity  Plan  is  that  by 
which  a man  deeds  real  estate  to  the  Uni- 
versity and  then  takes  a life  lease  on  it. 
He  thus  gets  the  benefit  of  the  use  and 
income  of  the  real  estate  during  his  life- 
time, and  makes  sure  that  at  his  death 
it  goes  where  he  desires.  This  form  of 
giving  also  avoids  the  inheritance  tax 
and  the  administrator’s  fees.  This 
method  of  giving  may  be  used  where  one 
is  suddenly  taken  sick  and  is  not  expected 
to  live  long.  A will  bequeathing  prop- 
erty to  a charitable  institution  must  be 
made  at  least  a year  before  the  death  of 
the  donor,  in  order  to  hold.  But  so  long 
as  one  is  in  his  right  mind,  he  may  deed 
his  property  as  he  wishes.  If  he  should 
unexpectedly  improve  and  finally  recover, 
the  use  and  income  of  his  property  would 
be  his  during  the  remainder  of  life. 

III.  Wills 

One  of  the  most  common  ways  of 


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transferring  money  or  property  to  the 
University  is  by  will.  Although  there 
may  be  circumstances  when  a will  may 
be  broken,  and  although  many  attempts 
are  made  to  break  wills  after  the  donors 
are  dead  and  cannot  defend  them,  yet 
when  they  are  properly  made  and  at- 
tested, they  are  as  sure  as  any  other 
method  of  giving.  One  thing  must  al- 
ways be  borne  in  mind  in  regard  to  wills 
in  Ohio,  and  that  is,  a will  tansferring 
money  or  property  to  a benevolent  or 
charitable  institution  must,  if  the  testa- 
tor leave  issue  of  his  body,  or  an  adopted 
child,  living,  be  made  at  least  one  year 
before  his  death  in  order  to  be  binding. 

The  great  danger  in  the  making  of 
wills  is  that  persons  making  them  will  de- 
lay until  it  is  too  late.  Several  of  the 
warmest  friends  of  the  University,  men 
who  have  loved  it  and  have  planned  to 
give  largely  to  it,  have  suddenly  taken 
sick  and  within  a few  days  or  weeks  have 
died,  and  not  a dollar  has  ever  come  to 
the  College.  The  property  of  one  or  two 
of  these  men  who  have  died  in  recent 
years  without  wills  has  been  scattered 
among  more  or  less  distant  relatives,  and 
already  is  largely  spent. 

One  need  not  hesitate  about  making  his 
will,  for  should  he  live  on  many  years  and 
should  he  wish  at  any  time  to  change  his 
plans  for  the  future,  the  will  can  easily 
be  changed  or  a new  will  made.  Who- 
ever, therefore,  is  planning  to  give  either 
to  this  or  to  any  other  benevolent  insti- 
tution ought  not  to  delay  in  regard  to 
his  will,  for  life  is  uncertain  and  no  one 
knows  what  a day  may  bring  forth.  Be- 
low will  be  found  a legal  form  for  a be- 
quest to  the  University,  together  with  a 
copy  of  the  Ohio  statute  in  regard  to 
wills  for  philanthropic  or  educational  en- 
terprises. 


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Statute  in  Regard  to  Wills  for 
Benevolent  Institutions 


UJ  F any  testator  die  leaving  issue 
I of  his  body,  or  an  adopted  child, 
living,  or  the  legal  representa- 
tive of  either,  and  the  will  of 
such  testator  give,  devise  or  bequeath  the 
estate  of  such  testator,  or  any  part 
thereof,  to  any  benevolent,  religious,  edu- 
cational or  charitable  purpose,  or  to  the 
state,  or  to  any  other  state  or  country,  or 
to  any  county,  city,  village  or  other  cor- 
poration or  association  in  this  or  any 
other  state  or  country,  or  to  any  person 
in  trust  for  any  of  such  purposes  or 
municipalities,  corporations  or  associa- 
tions, whether  such  trust  appears  on  the 
face  of  the  instrument  making  such  gift, 
devise  or  bequest  or  not ; such  will  as  to 
such  gift,  devise  or  bequest  shall  be 
invalid  unless  such  will  shall  have  been 
executed  according  to  law,  at  least  one 
year  prior  to  the  decease  of  such  testa- 
tor.” 


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Form  of  Bequest 


In  the  name  of  the  Benevolent 
Father  of  All,  I,  A B 

of , do  make  and  publish  this  my 

last  will  and  testament , as  follows: 

I give  and  devise  to  the  Trustees  of 
the  Ohio  Wesleyan  University,  and 
their  successors  and  assigns  forever , the 
folloiving  lands  and  tenements  [descrip- 
tion] in. . . . County , in  the  State  of ... . 

I give  and  bequeath  to  the  Trustees 
of  the  Ohio  Wesleyan  University 

the  sum  of dollars , to  be  paid  by 

my  executor  out  of  my  estate  within 

months  after  my  decease. 

In  testimony  whereof,  I hereto  sub- 
scribe my  name  and  affix  my  seal,  this 

day  of , A.  D 

[seal.]  A B 

Signed  and  acknowledged  by  the  above 

named  A B , testator , as  his 

last  will  and  testament , in  our  presence, 
and  signed  by  us  in  his  presence  and  at 
his  request,  as  subscribing  zvitnesses  to 
the  foregoing  last  zmll  and  testament  at 
the  date  last  aforesaid. 

C D 

E F 


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Extracts  From  Address 


Of  Professor  Rollin  ri.  Walker  on  ” Ideals  of 
the  University,”  Delivered  at  President 
Welch’s  Inauguration 

f ^ HE  ideal  of  a university  may 
perhaps  be  more  concretely  and 
effectively  expressed  by  noting 
some  of  the  needs  of  the  indi- 
vidual student  who  comes  before  us. 
Everything  centers  around  the  callow 
freshman,  who  comes  awkward  and  em- 
barrassed to  the  president’s  office  on  the 
first  day  of  the  school  year.  The  univer- 
sity is  made  for  him.  The  man  who 
stated  that  his  ideal  university  was  an 
institution  with  great  libraries  and  labor- 
atories and  ample  endowment,  but  no 
students,  was  emphasizing  a certain  legit- 
imate aspect  of  the  function  of  the  grad- 
uate school,  but  such  a conception  was 
far  removed  from  that  of  the  men  who 
founded  the  Ohio  Wesleyan  University. 
Their  thought  was  far  more  the  diffusion 
of  learning  than  its  advancement.  And 
doubtless  under  the  circumstances  they 
were  right.  Let  me  first,  then,  suggest 
some  of  the  needs  of  the  freshmen,  and 
then,  in  the  light  of  those  needs,  note  one 
or  two  of  our  ideals  for  ourselves  and  for 
you,  Mr.  President,  who  have  been  called 
to  be  our  leader.  It  is  a platitude  in  this 
presence  to  say  that  our  chief  desire  is 
that  the  student  should  be  clean  and  true 
and  manly.  The  struggle  to  be  clean  and 
true  and  manly  amid  the  tempestuous 
scorms  of  early  youth  is  an  effort  that 
must  be  looked  upon  with  great  sympa- 
thy and  a physician’s  kindly  insight.  One 
of  the  first  requirements  for  our  boy 
Tom,  as  he  begins  his  college  course  is 
a bracing  psychical  climate ; and  this 
climate  is  produced  by  the  association 
together  of  a group  of  teachers  and  stu- 


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dents  breathing  the  spirit  of  Christian 
idealism. 

After  a bracing  climate  it  is  perhaps 
next  in  importance  that  our  freshman 
should  be  given  good  reason  to  believe 
that  he  is  known  by  name  and  understood 
in  his  difficulties  and  perplexities.  When 
the  woman  at  the  well  was  told  by  Jesus 
the  facts  of  her  past  life,  in  great  excite- 
ment she  went  to  her  native  village  and 
said,  “Come,  behold  a Man  that  told  me 
all  things  that  ever  I did.  Is  not  this  the 
Christ  ?”  And  so  it  will  be  with  the  stu- 
dent who  finds  a teacher  that,  by  sympa- 
thetic insight,  is  able  to  sense  him  to  the 
quick.  It  is  surprising  what  severe  sur- 
gical operations  the  young  student  will 
submit  to  if  he  can  once  be  convinced  that 
his  teacher  is  his  friend  and  understands 
his  profession.  There  are  one  or  two 
classrooms  in  this  university  concerning 
which  some  of  us  are  accustomed  to  say 
that  they  ought  daily  to  be  washed  down 
with  antiseptics  on  account  of  the  large 
amount  of  surgical  work  that  is  per- 
formed in  them,  and  yet  they  are  not  by 
any  means  our  least  popular  lecture- 
rooms. 

Another  need  of  our  young  man  is 
that  his  inner  experiences  be  interpreted 
to  him.  Like  Nebuchadnezzar  of  old, 
“the  visions  of  his  head  trouble  him,” 
and  how  much  they  trouble  him  any  one 
of  you  may  realize  by  recalling  the  expe- 
riences that  intervened  between  the  ages 
of  sixteen  and  twenty-two.  He  looks 
into  the  faces  of  his  teachers  and  says, 
“Show  me  the  dream  and  the  interpreta- 
tion of  it.”  He  needs,  you  see,  not  only 
the  services  of  the  pedagogical  physician 
and  the  psychologist,  but  also  those  of 
the  seer. 

Dr.  Charles  E.  Jefferson,  of  the  Broad- 
way Tabernacle,  said  to  us  one  day  at 
the  end  of  his  student  days  at  Delaware, 


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“I  have  tried  to  make  my  college  course 
a poem.”  Would  that  as  teachers  our 
thought  of  the  present  were  so  filled  with 
a sense  of  how  it  is  all  linked  up  with 
the  great  deeds  and  strivings  and  think- 
ings of  the  heroes  and  the  sages  of  an- 
tiquity, so  that  we  could  cast  a glamour 
over  every  subject  and  teach  all  of  our 
youth  to  make  of  their  college  courses  a 
poem. 

The  youthful  student,  like  the  wise 
men  of  old,  is  forever  inquiring,  “Where 
is  He  that  is  born  King?”  How  his  soul 
thirsts  for  the  presence  of  greatness  and 
reality ! The  chief  function  of  the  col- 
lege professor  is  to  be  kingly.  You  re- 
member that  when  the  banished  Kent 
sought  out  his  former  lord  and  disguised 
as  a menial,  offered  his  service,  Lear  re- 
sponds, “Dost  thou  know  me,  fellow?” 
And  Kent  answers,  “No,  sir;  but  you 
have  that  in  your  countenance  which  I 
would  fain  call  master.”  “What’s  that?” 
says  Lear.  And  the  answer  is,  “Author- 
ity.” O,  the  pathetic  seeking  of  the 
youthful  mind  for  that  quality  in  men 
that  speaks  with  unwavering  and  certain 
conviction.  Your  Faculty,  Dr.  Welch, 
would  speak  with  authority  and  not  as 
the  scribes ; would  be  delivered  from  all 
suggestions  of  pedantry,  and  would  be 
more  anxious  for  intellectual  life  than  for 
learning. 


CORNER  STONE  OF  UNIVERSITY  HALL. 


FRONT  OF  UNIVERSITY  HALL. 


GENERAL  VIEW  OF  CAMPUS  MONNETT  HALL 


As  Others  See  Us 


Editorial  by  Or.  Levi  Gilbert,  Editor  Western 
Christian  Advocate 

IN  a recent  Sunday  afternoon  we 
sat  in  Gray  Chapel,  Ohio  Wes- 
leyan University,  during  the 
Commencement  L o v e-F  east. 
The  meeting-room  was  filled  with  stu- 
dents, professors,  and  former  graduates, 
who  had  come  back  from  many  fields  to 
avouch  their  enduring  love  for  Alma 
Mater.  There  was  one  note  which  ran 
through  all  the  testimonies  ; and  that  note, 
gathering  cumulative  force  and  coming 
to  a climax  with  the  hour’s  close,  touched 
the  very  depths  of  all  hearts. 

The  graduates  of  the  present  year  — 
almost  without  exception  Christians  — 
thanked  God  with  voices  full  of  emotion 
that  they  had  ever  been  led  to  come  to 
Ohio  Wesleyan,  and  that  they  had  re- 
ceived such  leading  into  the  Christian  life 
and  such  abiding  impressions  for  good. 
One  after  another  the  alumni  spoke  of 
how  invaluable  for  their  characters  and 
life-work  they  had  found  the  moral  and 
spiritual  discipline  of  the  dear  old  school. 
Men  and  women  who  had  labored  in  mis- 
sion fields  in  China,  Africa,  Japan,  and 
India,  told  how  they  had  been  upheld  by 
the  ideals  they  had  received  in  Delaware. 
One  or  two  native  Chinamen  and  Japan- 
ese spoke  of  the  uplift  and  vision  which 
had  come  to  them. 

Professors  confessed  to  the  satisfaction 
and  joy  they  had  in  teaching  amid  an 
atmosphere  which,  was  so  religious  and 
evangelistic,  and  where,  at  the  same  time, 
the  scholastic  standards  were  held  up  so 
high ; where  men  were  encouraged 
frankly  to  unbosom  their  doubts  and 
struggles  that  they  might  receive  loving 
advice,  prayer,  and  helpful  direction. 
Pastors  from  here  and  there,  devoted 
workers  in  God’s  vineyard,  narrated,  with 
tears  in  their  voices,  how  they  had  been 


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“born  there”,  and  how  the  first  strong 
and  definite  religious  convictions  had 
come  to  them  which  sent  them  out  after- 
wards as  pleaders  for  Christ.  Teachers 
in  other  institutions  explained  how  often 
there  was  forced  upon  their  notice  the- 
something  wanting  in  many  students  in 
secular  colleges,  who,  with  all  their 
brightness,  knowledge,  and  culture, 
lacked  that  which  Tennyson  said  Goethe 
did  not  have,  but  Dante  did  — the  spirit- 
ual element. 

The  testimony  of  the  leaders  in  the 
greatest  colleges  of  our  land  was  given 
not  only  to  the  intellectual  alertness  and 
preparedness  of  the  graduates  of  the  Ohio 
Wesleyan,  which  ranked  them  side  by 
side  with  the  product  of  the  most  famous 
schoolSj  but  also  to  the  presence  of  a 
certain  moral  earnestness  which  furn- 
ished these  young  people  a constant  in- 
centive and  impulse  for  most  strenuous 
endeavor  in  the  arena  of  life.  Parents 
joyfully  added  their  word,  thanking  their 
Father  for  what  Ohio  Wesleyan  had  done 
in  giving  solid  religious  convictions  to 
their  children,  and  sending  them  out 
sheathed  with  triple-plate  armor  for  the 
battle  of  life. 

Thus  young  and  old  spoke  during  the 
all  too  brief  hour.  And,  though  we  had 
had  some  considerable  conception  before 
of  what  a Christian  college  meant  and  of 
what  it  could  do,  it  was  never  before 
borne  in  upon  us  so  overwhelmingly, 
convincingly,  and  affectingly  as  during 
those  precious  moments.  Surely  the  slur 
against  denominational  colleges  on  the 
part  of  those  who  say  that  there  can  be 
no  such  thing  as  Methodist  geology,  or 
Presbyterian  physics,  or  Baptist  astron- 
omy, is  easily  answered.  There  can  be 
an  atmosphere,  a purposefulness,  a con- 
viction, an  esprit  de  corps,  a potency  is- 
suing from  the  individual  and  collective 
lines  of  the  teaching  force  and  the  student 
body  and  the  traditions  of  the  school 
which  shall  make  a Christian  college  both 
a distinctive  and  also  a vastly  needed  ed- 
ucational factor  in  the  world. 


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